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Journal of the Early Republic
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ISSN (Print) 0275-1275 - ISSN (Online) 1553-0620
Published by Project MUSE

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"The Baby of Biological Race": The Issue of Racial Science in Winthrop
Jordan's White Over Black
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  Abstract: Yes, well they don't know beans about the biology of it, and that's why in recent years I've gotten very interested in evolutionary biology for this reason alone. No matter how you try and say, "Well, race doesn't exist," or it's just a social construct—it is a social construct, and my whole book screams that it is, but it also, it's a biological reality.The first principle of racism is belief in race, even if the believer does not deduce from that belief that the member of a race should be enslaved or disfranchised or shot on sight by trigger-happy police officers or asked for identification when crossing the campus of the university where he teaches, just as believing that the sun travels around the earth is ... Read More
  PubDate: 2023-06-05T00:00:00-05:00
John Brown, Filibuster: Republicans, Harpers Ferry, and the Use of
Violence, 1855–1860
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  Abstract: On October 19, 1859, a mere day after John Brown surrendered at Harpers Ferry, the New York Evening Post analyzed the violence that occurred. A Republican newspaper edited by William Cullen Bryant, the Post did not struggle to figure out who was responsible for Brown's invasion. Rejecting the common report that Republican rhetoric had led Brown to take up arms, the paper instead pinned the blame upon the Democratic Party. "Ossawatomie Brown … has thought it just as right and proper to invade Virginia," the editor fulminated, "as it was for the States [a Democratic newspaper], and its party to invade Kansas, Nicaragua, Mexico, or Cuba." The editor sought to link the ongoing violence in Kansas with the filibuster ... Read More
  PubDate: 2023-06-05T00:00:00-05:00
Nothingarians: The Fear of the Unchurched in Early National America
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  Abstract: In The Convert (1857), the Catholic writer Orestes Brownson's iconic story of religious pilgrimage, he tells of the confusions of evangelical culture during New England's Second Great Awakening. No one (he recalled) instructed him about sacraments or the institutional church, but they insisted that he needed to "get religion" and be born again. He spent the most time at Churches of Christ and Methodist meetings. The main difference between the two, as far as he could tell, was that "the Methodist preachers appeared to have the stronger lungs; they preached in a louder tone, and when they preached, the people shouted more." He could not settle down, however, and by age fourteen he "fell in with the new sectaries ... Read More
  PubDate: 2023-06-05T00:00:00-05:00
The Hudson River Valley Loyalists in British North America: Connection,
Community, and Continuity
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  Abstract: Timothy Wetmore tried to keep his family together despite the upheaval brought by the Revolutionary War. Wetmore was an attorney from Rye, a town located in Westchester County, New York. As a child, Wetmore's father had told him "to fear God & the King." After collaborating with British forces who passed through his community, Wetmore fled with his wife and eight children to British-occupied New York City to "avoid assassination." In New York, his wife and one of his children died, to which he blamed the "Calamities of the Times." When the war ended, Wetmore decided to leave New York and settle with other Loyalists along the Saint John River, an area that would become the province of New Brunswick in 1784. He ... Read More
  PubDate: 2023-06-05T00:00:00-05:00
Female Genius: Eliza Harriot and George Washington at the Dawn of the
Constitution by Mary Sarah Bilder (review)
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  Abstract: In May of 1787, a British woman named Eliza Harriot O'Connor delivered a lecture on "the Power of Eloquence" in Philadelphia. This occasion likely marked the first time a woman spoke publicly in the United States. The event was attended by future president George Washington and, quite possibly, several other prominent men who were in town to attend the Constitutional Convention. Washington pronounced the lecture "tolerable." For years, this curious episode puzzled and enchanted Mary Sarah Bilder, whose book Female Genius: Eliza Harriot and George Washington at the Dawn of the Constitution reflects her efforts to understand the larger significance of what transpired that evening. Bilder aims to "flip the outside in ... Read More
  PubDate: 2023-06-05T00:00:00-05:00
Hessians: German Soldiers in the American Revolutionary War by Friederike
Baer (review)
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  Abstract: In Hessians: German Soldiers in the American Revolutionary War, Friederike Baer offers a thorough and critical analysis of the German experience in the American Revolution. Relying on a variety of international sources, Baer reveals how German soldiers perceived the conflict, and how their contributions affected the outcome of the war. Despite their being major players in the British war effort, the contributions of German auxiliary soldiers remain some of the most under-studied elements of the American Revolution. Baer's efforts to shed light on these often-overlooked sources has helped to fill a critical gap in modern Revolutionary scholarship, making Hessians an essential read.In the aftermath of the Seven ... Read More
  PubDate: 2023-06-05T00:00:00-05:00
Awkward Rituals: Sensations of Governance in Protestant America by Dana W.
Logan (review)
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  Abstract: In studying what she calls the "sensations of governance," Dana W. Logan's Awkward Rituals does not round up the usual suspects either in civic life—commemorations, cornerstone-layings, and fourth of July celebrations—or in traditional sacred spaces—church services, camp meetings, public sermons. Logan, a specialist in religious studies, looks instead at how religious Americans portrayed power in less public settings, in fraternal orders, benevolent societies, and domestic life.Logan's compact work, less than 125 pages of text, seeks to move beyond previous considerations of rituals. For more than a century, scholars have struggled to find paths and patterns in what Victor Turner called the "forest of symbols." ... Read More
  PubDate: 2023-06-05T00:00:00-05:00
Almost Dead: Slavery and Social Rebirth in the Black Urban Atlantic,
1680–1807 by Michael Dickinson (review)
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  Abstract: The published narratives of former bondspeople are some of the most comprehensive and detailed accounts of slavery in existence. These sources can also provoke thorny debates among scholars. Often written and published in collaboration with antislavery movements, these texts have sometimes been questioned for the ways that they might distort experiences of enslavement. In Almost Dead: Slavery and Social Rebirth in the Black Urban Atlantic, 1680–1807, Michael Dickinson skillfully confronts these critiques, arguing for historians to regard enslavement narratives as "worthwhile historical evidence," which have received "disproportionate scrutiny" in comparison with white authors (7). Dickinson's choice to center these ... Read More
  PubDate: 2023-06-05T00:00:00-05:00
The Souls of Womenfolk: The Religious Cultures of Enslaved Women in the
Lower South by Alexis Wells-Oghoghomeh (review)
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  Abstract: Enslaved women in the antebellum south inhabited a "triple consciousness," writes Alexis Wells-Oghoghomeh in her groundbreaking new book, The Souls of Womenfolk. Wells-Oghoghomeh shows how bondwomen's intersectional experiences as enslaved Black women with (re)productive demands led to "ontological ramifications and moral dilemmas" (2). Their triple consciousness should be recognized as the source of enslaved religious and ethical culture, with the "psyches of enslaved men and children" flowing from the bedrock of women's triple consciousness.In The Souls of Womenfolk, Wells-Oghoghomeh introduces several powerful interlocking concepts that help to narrate both the history of slavery and the history of religion in ... Read More
  PubDate: 2023-06-05T00:00:00-05:00
Liberty's Chain: Slavery, Abolition, and the Jay Family of New York by
David N. Gellman (review)
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  Abstract: David Gellman's Liberty's Chain is an elegantly written study of slavery across several generations of the Jay family of New York, which offers an important intervention into several literatures on race and slavery in U.S. history. The book is divided into three parts, each focusing on one generation of the Jay family from the 1770s to the 1870s. Its main subjects are John Jay (1745–1829), William Jay (1789–1858), and John Jay II (1817–1894), allowing Gellman to focus on the history of slavery in the founding generation, through the era of gradual emancipation in the U.S. North, and ultimately into the Civil War era. Across this long arc Gellman "shed[s] new light on the transitions from the practice of gradual ... Read More
  PubDate: 2023-06-05T00:00:00-05:00
The Paradox of Power: Statebuilding in America, 1754–1920 by Ballard
C. Campbell (review)
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  Abstract: Scholars of the early U.S. have long been interested in how state-building occurred, but a massive revival of attention to the subject in the past twenty years has produced a wave of important research. The Paradox of Power enters this conversation with an impressive contribution to our understanding of the early national state through a synthetic analysis of how government grew, not only nationally but at the local and state levels as well.Ballard Campbell argues in this book that American state-building has been characterized by a paradox between theory and action: a strong commitment to anti-statist values on the one hand, with a practical necessity for enhanced state action on the other. Those immediate needs ... Read More
  PubDate: 2023-06-05T00:00:00-05:00
A Great and Rising Nation: Naval Exploration and Global Empire in the
Early US Republic by Michael A. Verney (review)
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  Abstract: Michael Verney's book recovers nineteenth-century U.S. imperialization through six naval explorations between 1816 and 1853. Imperialization was not an uncommon process to many Americans in this period who observed and practiced it in the western lands of North America and the cotton fields of the South. Overseas imperialism, however, had different overtones. Naval exploration had long been considered a "European strategy for global imperialism" (4) that was at odds with the republican values that Americans held dear to their hearts. Verney argues that the gradual embracement of naval exploration as an instrument of U.S. global imperialism is "a story about coalition building" (5) among white capitalists ... Read More
  PubDate: 2023-06-05T00:00:00-05:00
Yankees in the Indian Ocean: American Commerce and Whaling,
1786–1860 by Jane Hooper (review)
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  Abstract: In Yankees in the Indian Ocean, Jane Hooper explores the Indian Ocean from the vantage point of American merchants, sea captains, sailors, and whalemen. This is a timely addition to the historiography since the last decade has seen rising interest in the topic of the early republic United States in a global context, and as Hooper observes, American activities in the Indian Ocean have not received the same amount of attention as they have in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.Using mainly mariners' memoirs, journals, and logbooks along with U.S. consul records and newspapers, Hooper tackles a variety of topics in her six chapters: the earliest American whaling voyages to the Indian Ocean in the 1790s; Salem merchants' ... Read More
  PubDate: 2023-06-05T00:00:00-05:00
Russian Colonization of Alaska: From Heyday to Sale, 1818–1867 by Andrei
Valterovich Grinev (review)
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  Abstract: This important monograph is the third of a three-volume series on Russian America, and examines the era of Russian naval governors who presided over Russian–American Company (RAC) activities in the North Pacific until the sale of Alaska to the United States in 1867. Professor Grinev's work is a major contribution to the history of the post-1818 era, which is limited to a small number of monographs like Russian America: An Overseas Colony of a Continental Empire, 1804–1867 by Ilya Vinkovetsky (New York, 2011) and Russians in Alaska, 1732–1867 by Lydia Black (Fairbanks, AK, 2004), the latter heavily focused on the pre-1818 era. Like Grinev's first two volumes, which centered on eighteenth-century Russian expansion ... Read More
  PubDate: 2023-06-05T00:00:00-05:00
Peace and Friendship: An Alternative History of the American West by
Stephen Aron (review)
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  Abstract: Alternative histories of the west that attempt to complicate, or flat out contradict, declension narratives have been at a premium for several decades now. Perhaps most famously, after Richard White wrote The Roots of Dependency: Subsistence, Environment and Social Change among Choctaws, Pawnees, and Navajos (Lincoln, NE, 1983), in his next book he sought to frustrate this account of Native American decline, and the result was one of the most influential histories of the west, The Middle Ground: Indians, Empires, and Republics in the Great Lakes Region, 1650–1815 (New York, 1991). In recent decades, perhaps the most noteworthy histories in this vein were Pekka Hämäläinen's Comanche Empire (New Haven, CT, 2009) and ... Read More
  PubDate: 2023-06-05T00:00:00-05:00
Paternalism to Partnership: The Administration of Indian Affairs,
1786–2021 by David H. DeJong (review)
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  Abstract: Until relatively recently, government administrators exercised an extraordinary degree of power over Indigenous people. Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) officials could dictate almost every aspect of Indigenous people's lives, including where they lived, how and what they bought and sold, what they owned, what they wore and ate, the languages they spoke, how they received and managed money, how they organized their governments, and even how and whether they raised children. Indigenous people resisted, but these policies had undeniably important, and often disastrous, consequences for generations. Yet historians still have an incomplete understanding of the BIA and its inner workings, and in recent decades there have ... Read More
  PubDate: 2023-06-05T00:00:00-05:00
A Vivifying Spirit: Quaker Practice and Reform in Antebellum America by
Janet Moore Lindman (review)
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  Abstract: Janet Moore Lindman's A Vivifying Spirit examines the increasingly complex world of doctrinal conflict among mid-Atlantic Quakers in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The book, based on deep archival research, dives into the spiritual practices of American Quakers through a variety of lenses. Lindman argues that Quakers' responses to mainstream evangelical Protestantism shaped their engagement with social reform and their own history. The context Lindman provides for Quakers' debates over reform develops a historiographical thread in both American religious history and the history of antebellum reform examining the connections between reform and religious movements in early America. Despite the details ... Read More
  PubDate: 2023-06-05T00:00:00-05:00
Only the Clothes on Her Back: Clothing and the Hidden History of Power in
the Nineteenth-Century United States by Laura F. Edwards (review)
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  Abstract: As material displays of identity, markers of class and status, or symbols of political persuasion, clothing's power to convey a variety of cultural messages has been of increasing interest to historians. Certainly, the economic significance of clothing and textiles for both trade and manufacturing in early America is widely recognized. Vastly underappreciated, however, is the place of law in those dynamics. As Laura Edwards demonstrates in her newest work, both the social and economic value of textiles derived from the legal principles that attached to this form of property: "the legal principles associated with textiles involved foundational cultural values and social customs that defined the good order of ... Read More
  PubDate: 2023-06-05T00:00:00-05:00